There is one type of training feedback, used particularly in practical skills, that really gets my back up.
For example, decades ago in sailing class:
Now, do you think you did everything correctly?
……… …………. ? …………… .
…….. ? …………… ….. .
……… ………. ? ……….
et cetera et cetera
What I would have preferred:
Mops you utter idiot! You just stood tall for a moment. If you’d had crash gybed you’d have a crushed skull now and gone overboard. Imagine your lying in the drink now, dead and sinking down.
I wonder if the “guessing game” method is widely considered a good or a bad practice by really good trainers, and particularly by people who train trainers.
I remember professors who would use that method back when I was in medical school. I hated it. Not so much because of how they would react if I correctly guessed what my mistake was, but because of the way they would react to the converse.
Let’s say some task involves getting A, B, C, D, and E done. Let’s say I did A, B, c, D, and E. The question would come, “what did you do wrong?” If I actually said c, things would be fine, and the lesson would proceed. If, however, I said B, or D, or whatever part of it I did correctly, the response I would typically get would be something like “why would you think you messed that up?, do you know that little that you think something you got right might actually be wrong?, you must not have studied at all”, or something along those lines.